MACMILLAN Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England

Product Description Body Narratives deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between disciplinary discourses of the human body and political body imagery in the texts of courtly writers like Spenser, Sidney, Ralegh and others, and traces its interdependence in their narratives of national identity, imperial expansion and gender difference. Review "This is a useful book in its ability to bring recent scholarship, theory, and familiar texts together...." - Elizabeth D. Harvey, Renaissance Quarterly This is a smart book with much to offer... Journal of Interdisciplinary History About the Author Susanne Scholz is Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at Paderborn University in Germany.